张公吃酒李公颠 in English
- (idiom) Used when an act, fault, or responsibility belonging to one person is attributed to another. It is equivalent to “Zhang Gong drinks, Li Gong gets drunk.”
Character breakdown
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
张
These are the forms of 張, the traditional character: 张 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
-
Bronze script 戰國晚期.燕 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
公
-
Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
吃
-
Warring States script 戰國.齊 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 3 forms
酒
-
Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
李
-
Bronze script 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
颠
These are the forms of 顛, the traditional character: 颠 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
-
Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).